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{"value"=>"Jean Blackwell Hutson papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Jean Blackwell Hutson (1914-1998) was a librarian who served as curator of the Schomburg Collection from 1948 to 1972, then chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1972 to 1980. The Jean Blackwell Hutson papers include materials relating to Hutson's personal life and family, library career at the Schomburg Center and the University of Ghana, and teaching, writing, and other activities."}
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{"value"=>"Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Jean Blackwell Hutson (1914-1998) was a librarian who served as curator of the Schomburg Collection from 1948 to 1972, then chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1972 to 1980. She was born on September 7, 1914, in Sommerfield, Florida, to parents Paul and Sarah Myers Blackwell, and at age four moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Hutson graduated valedictorian from Douglass High School in 1931, then attended the University of Michigan before transferring to Barnard College, from which she graduated in 1935, as the second Black woman graduate after Zora Neale Hurston. In 1936, she received a master's degree in library science from Columbia University, and that same year was temporarily hired at the 135th St. branch of New York Public Library (NYPL) to fill in for Catherine Latimer, who was on maternity leave. Over the next several years, she worked at various NYPL locations and as a school librarian and teacher at high schools in Baltimore and New Jersey, earning a teaching degree from Columbia in 1941. In 1948, she returned to 135th St. as curator of the Schomburg Collection after the departure of previous curator Lawrence Reddick.</p> <p>As curator, she inventoried the collection and oversaw the publication of the <span class=\"title\">Dictionary Catalogue of the Schomburg Collection</span> in 1962. In 1964, she took a year-long leave of absence to work at the University of Ghana, building an Africana collection for their library at the behest of Ghana's president Kwame Nkrumah, a former 135th St. branch patron. On her return to NYPL, Hutson worked to fundraise and lobby on behalf of the Schomburg Collection, which in 1972 was designated the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of NYPL's three research libraries. Hutson's advocacy resulted in federal funding to construct a new building to house the collection, which opened in 1981. In 1980, Hutson was transferred to a new role as assistant director for collection management, and Wendell Wray was hired as Schomburg director. Hutson retired from NYPL in 1984.</p> <p>In addition to her work as a librarian, Hutson taught classes in Black history at City College during the 1960s and 1970s and at Westchester Community College in the 1980s. She authored articles that appeared in <span class=\"title\">Opportunity</span> and <span class=\"title\">Freedomways</span>, contributed to numerous biographies and encyclopedias of notable Black figures, and was herself profiled in <span class=\"title\">Who's Who</span> and <span class=\"title\">Notable Black American Women</span>. She was active in many professional and civic organizations, including the American Library Association, the Harlem Cultural Council, the National Urban League, and Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She received honors and awards from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the New York Black Librarians Caucus, and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, among others.</p> <p>Hutson was married to poet and songwriter Andy Razaf from 1939 to 1947, then John Hutson from 1950 to his death in 1957. They had one daughter, Jean Frances Hutson (1952-1992). Hutson died in Harlem in February 1998.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jean Blackwell Hutson papers include materials relating to Hutson's personal life and family, library career at the Schomburg Center and the University of Ghana, and teaching, writing, and other activities.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jean Blackwell Hutson papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21045#c1664451'>Personal</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1902-1998</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The personal files contain biographical material, including address books, diaries, ID cards, passports, and various biographies of and interviews with Hutson. There are also education files containing correspondence and newsletters from the alumni groups of Douglass High School and Barnard College, as well as class materials and notes from Hutson's time at Columbia's Teacher's College in the 1940s and oral history program in the 1980s. There is a significant amount of family papers and correspondence, particularly with Hutson's mother, Sarah Myers Blackwell, and daughter, Jean Frances Hutson. Finally, there are some financial papers, travel documents, and various certificates and plaques awarded to Hutson.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21045#c1664499'>Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1932-1994</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence includes a mix of personal and professional content, from friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. Includes a large number of cards Hutson received upon her retirement from NYPL in 1984.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21045#c1664559'>Professional and Civic Activities</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1948-1993</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series documents Hutson's career at NYPL and the University of Ghana, as well as her other professional activities and the community and civic organizations to which she belonged and conferences and events she attended.</p> <p>The NYPL files include memos, reports, and press clippings from Hutson's tenure at the Schomburg Center. (Extensive files on her activities there can also be found in the Schomburg Center institutional records.) Particular Schomburg personnel controversies, including the firing of archivist Laurore St. Juste, the hiring of white archivist Robert Morris, and Hutson's own clashes with NYPL administration and 1980 reassignment are all documented. Meeting minutes and memos detailing the fundraising and construction of the 1981 Schomburg Center building can be found in the Schomburg Corporation files.</p> <p>This series also includes correspondence, memos, and travel documents relating to Hutson's year-long term at the University of Ghana; memos, lecture notes, and syllabi for the classes she taught at City College; and correspondence, meeting notes, and other materials relating to other organizations in which she was active, such as Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Harlem Cultural Center, and the National Urban League.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21045#c1664600'>Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1992</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains drafts and published versions of Hutson's articles, bibliographies, and biographical entries; as well as correspondence and materials relating to two books for which she served on advisory boards, <span class=\"title\">Notable Black American Women</span> and <span class=\"title\">Who's Who Among Black Americans</span>. There are also some writings by others, including a typescript of \"Poems for a Mixed-Up World\" by Hutson's first husband Andy Razaf.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21045#c1664620'>Printed Matter</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938-1995</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Contains invitations, programs, and press clippings.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jean Blackwell Hutson papers are arranged in five series: I. Personal II. Correspondence III. Professional and Civic Activities IV. Writings and V. Printed Matter</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the estate of Jean Blackwell Hutson, 1998.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: portraits of Hutson, watercolor, kinte cloth, musical instrument, stool, coins. . Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs, including portraits, family photographs, and snapshots.</p> <p>Transferred to the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division: books and serials.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Andy Razaf papers, Sc MG 35, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Ellen Craft Dammond reminiscences, Sc MG 650, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Jean Blackwell Hutson oral history interview, Sc MG 673, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, Sc MG 44, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p>"}
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{"id"=>"aspace_d854578e993ce62bdd70db0fb082ace6", "value"=>"<p>Johnson-Cooper, Glendora. \"African-American Historical Continuity: Jean Blackwell Hutson and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\" in <span class=\"title\">Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In</span> edited by Suzanne Hildenbrand. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1996.</p> <p>Smith, Dinitia. \"Jean Hutson, Schomburg Chief, Dies at 83.\" <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, February 7, 1998. www.nytimes.com/1998/02/07/arts/jean-hutson-schomburg-chief-dies-at-83.html</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
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1902
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1902
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1998
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